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I'm drawn back to this empty screen each year to secrete my opinion on what I enjoyed this year. I've been doing it since at least 2009, back when I thought writing about music conferred some kind of numinous insight into music. I listen to a lot of bullshit and I'm cynical as hell. Sometimes, I leap out of my chair and whip my (no) hair back and forth in ecstacy. Some of those discs did that to me this year. Here's a numbered list of them.

1. Gazpacho - Molok

These guys are out of this world. Prog rock that's actually progressive and actually rock. It runs from ancient esoterics to futurist wanderings. This is such a trip. At the end there's this code that might blow the world up. For a second there, I tensed up and clenched my eyes tight...

2. Ghost - Meliora

It's pop music painted black. If metal had something close to Pet Sounds, this might be it.

Hysteria Xmas Eve FRENZY actually made it to your Apple/Robot Store in time for Xmas...eve. Slipknot's dead skin mask scares every pearl-clutching mom ever on the cover; Angels & Airwaves, Storm the Sky and a very fetching young Fronz from Attila grace the in-betweens. Hands Like Houses serve spiked (vege) dogs balls in our kitchen. Oh: 25 Albums of the Year get a grillin' PLUS their artists interviewed alongside? No sweat m8. I even nabbed another chat with my heterosexual life-partner Spencer Chamberlain from Sleepwave. We are but only apart for another month and a half, my sweet...